Strategies to improve micelle stability for drug delivery

Y Lu, E Zhang, J Yang, Z Cao - Nano research, 2018 - Springer
Micelles have been studied as drug delivery carriers for decades. Their use can potentially
result in high drug accumulation at the target site through the enhanced permeability and …

Exosomal delivery of therapeutic modulators through the blood–brain barrier; promise and pitfalls

M Heidarzadeh, Y Gürsoy-Özdemir, M Kaya… - Cell & Bioscience, 2021 - Springer
Nowadays, a large population around the world, especially the elderly, suffers from
neurological inflammatory and degenerative disorders/diseases. Current drug delivery …

Basic concepts and recent advances in nanogels as carriers for medical applications

I Neamtu, AG Rusu, A Diaconu, LE Nita, AP Chiriac - Drug delivery, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Nanogels in biomedical field are promising and innovative materials as dispersions of
hydrogel nanoparticles based on crosslinked polymeric networks that have been called as …

Nitroxide-mediated polymerization

J Nicolas, Y Guillaneuf, C Lefay, D Bertin… - Progress in Polymer …, 2013 - Elsevier
Nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP) is a controlled/living radical polymerization
(CLRP) technique that enables the design of well-defined, functional and complex …

Activated ester containing polymers: opportunities and challenges for the design of functional macromolecules

A Das, P Theato - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Rapidly growing demand of functional polymers in various interdisciplinary areas of
research has accentuated the need for modern synthetic tools to develop advanced …

Cu-catalyzed azide− alkyne cycloaddition

M Meldal, CW Tornøe - Chemical reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
The Huisgen 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of organic azides and alkynes1, 2 has
gained considerable attention in recent years due to the introduction in 2001 of Cu (1) …

Polymer nanogels: a versatile nanoscopic drug delivery platform

RT Chacko, J Ventura, J Zhuang… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this review we put the spotlight on crosslinked polymer nanogels, a promising platform
that has the characteristics of an “ideal” drug delivery vehicle. Some of the key aspects of …

Nanogels as pharmaceutical carriers: finite networks of infinite capabilities

AV Kabanov, SV Vinogradov - … Chemie International Edition, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Nanogels are swollen nanosized networks composed of hydrophilic or amphiphilic polymer
chains. They are developed as carriers for the transport of drugs, and can be designed to …

Applications of orthogonal “click” chemistries in the synthesis of functional soft materials

RK Iha, KL Wooley, AM Nystrom, DJ Burke… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Applications for advanced functional soft materials that possess precisely engineered
properties and functional groups have been expanding significantly with the development of …

Marrying click chemistry with polymerization: expanding the scope of polymeric materials

PL Golas, K Matyjaszewski - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Click chemistry constitutes a class of reactions broadly characterized by efficiency,
selectivity, and tolerance to a variety of solvents and functional groups. By far the most …